Professional Notes: January 2023
01/30/2023
Professional Notes is a round-up of awards, presentations, papers, and other professional achievements of SLU faculty, staff members, and students.
Faculty and Staff
The Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) just released its "ASPPH COVID-19 Storytelling Project: How Schools and Programs Made an Impact During the Pandemic." The project tells the stories of universities that are ASPPH members and their responses to the pandemic, as a toolkit for the future. Saint Louis University, and Terri Rebmann, Ph.D. (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) were spotlighted in the project.
Nori Katagiri, Ph.D. (Political Science) published his latest article in the International Review of Law, Computers and Technology. The article is titled "Hackers of critical infrastructure: Expectations and challenges with the principle of target distinction." In the paper, he explains what makes it hard to defend critical infrastructure from cyber attacks, with focus on flaws with the principle of distinction and international law.
Sarah Oerther, Ph.D. (Nursing), Anthony Breitbach, Ph.D. (Doisy) Sarah Manspeaker, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy), David Pole, Ph.D. (Family and Community Medicine), and Kristine L’Ecuyer, Ph.D. had the article "Interprofessional Education for nursing students in the age of the Anthropocene" The article describe the value of adopting an interdisciplinary approach to tackle one of the most complex problems threatening human health, namely, the Anthropocene.
Harold Braswell, Ph.D. (Health Care Ethics) has published an article about COVID-19 and nursing homes in Parapraxis, a new magazine dedicated to psychoanalysis and social commentary.
Anne Sebert Kuhlmann, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Education) published the research "COVID-19 made it harder to access period products: The effects of a pandemic on period poverty"' in Frontiers in Reproductive Health with former and current students as co-authors.
Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Education) recently published the research article "A Spatial Examination of COVID-19 Policies among Missouri School Districts' in the Journal of School Health." SLU public health students Stephen Scroggins, Germysha Little and Gary Ritter, Ph.D. (Education) contributed in the study.
Travis Loux, Ph.D. (Biostatistics) recently had a research paper published in "Pediatric Obesity," titled "Trends in U.S. adolescent physical activity and obesity: A 20-year age-period-cohort analysis." This research was done with students, Morgan Matusik (MPH alum) and Asja Hamzic (undergrad biostatistics major).
Nancy Weaver, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Education), recently had an article published in the OESIS Intrepid News titled "Who We Are: Three Strategies to Create an Inclusive Classroom."
Benjamin Looker, Ph.D. (American Studies) and Amanda L. Izzo, Ph.D. (Women's and Gender Studies) in January published a co-edited volume with the University of Missouri Press, titled "Left in the Midwest: St. Louis Progressive Activism in the 1960s and 1970s." With 16 chapters exploring St. Louis stories of the Black freedom struggle, lesbian and gay liberation, environmental and feminist organizing, the peace movement, and beyond, this collection is the first to examine the immense range of activist movements that took root in this Midwestern city during the era.
Heidi Ardizzone, Ph.D. (American Studies) published a research essay titled "Generational Activism and Civil Rights Organizing in St. Louis," as a chapter in the recent volume "Left in the Midwest: St. Louis Progressive Organizing in the 1960s and 1970s."
Gretchen Arnold, Ph.D. (Emerita, Women's & Gender Studies) published a co-authored research essay (written with Ilene Ordower) titled “'We Were on a Mission': Feminist Activism in St. Louis in the 1960s and 1970s," as a chapter in the recent volume "Left in the Midwest: St. Louis Progressive Organizing in the 1960s and 1970s."
Mary Maxfield, Ph.D. (Women's & Gender Studies) published a research essay titled "'Together We Can Make a Safe Home': Space, Violence, and Lesbian Organizing in 1970s St. Louis," as a chapter in the recent volume "Left in the Midwest: St. Louis Progressive Activism in the 1960s and 1970s."
Oluwatoyosi (Olu) Owoeye, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) co-authored a new publication in the Journal of Orthopedic & Sports Physical Therapy.
Faculty members Brian Elliott, Julie Howe, Teresa Neal, and Elaina Osterbur, Ph.D., (Health Sciences) presented at the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education Fall Festival on "Transforming Health Care Education with HIM" on Sept. 29, 2022.
Farzana Hoque, M.D. (Internal Medicine) was invited as a speaker by the Internal Medicine residency program of Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The title of her talk was “Hone Your Emotional Intelligence to Excel as a Physician."
Nori Katagiri, Ph.D. (Political Science) has accepted the job of Associate Editor of Global Studies Quarterly, an Oxford University Press journal that is part of the International Studies Association.
Maria J. Romo-Palafox, Ph.D. (Nutrition and Dietetics) has been invited to become a Cambio Center Fellow. Established in 2004, the MU Cambio Center leads research and outreach on Latinos and changing communities. The center aims to understand and support changing communities and the process of immigrant integration, their work includes interdisciplinary research that spans fields as diverse as psychology, community development, economics, health, education, human development and family studies, history, language acquisition, law, and more. The Cambio Center also seeks to strengthen the university's ties with Latin America, and foment further research, faculty and student exchange, and other partnerships.
The Cambio Center board said it believes Romo-Palafox's presence may help the Cambio Center's research and outreach efforts to facilitate the smooth and sustainable integration of immigrant and Latinos into the Midwest and Missouri in particular. The Cambio Center will be supporting and disseminating Romo-Palafox's work focused on the cultural, political, and environmental factors that shape the food preferences and eating habits of Hispanics and their young children.
Craig A. Boyd, Ph.D. (General Studies) was awarded a Clyde S. Kilby Research Grant from the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College for his forthcoming book, “Tolkien on the True, the Good, and the Beautiful” with Cambridge University Press. The volume addresses how Tolkien’s catholic perspectives inform his views on God, metaphysics, and morality with special attention to the virtues and vices.
Kitty Newsham, Ph.D. (Physical Therapy and Athletic Training) has been recognized as the 2023 Mid America Athletic Trainers' Association Athletic Training Educator of the Year. Newsham will receive the award March 17, at the Association's Annual Meeting in Omaha, NE.
Farzana Hoque, M.D. (Internal Medicine) achieved the Certificate in Physician Leadership. Hoque completed an 18-month-long certification program by the American College of Physicians & American Association for Physician Leadership. To earn this Physician Leadership Certification, she completed 50 credit courses and one Capstone Project that demonstrates successful mastery of leadership concepts in Hospital Medicine.
Devita Stallings, Ph.D. (Nursing) is an NIA Healthy Aging Start-Up Challenge finalist. Through this Challenge, NIA is seeking researchers and entrepreneurs with a demonstrated need who have innovative ideas for science-driven technologies and products with the potential to increase the diversity of NIA-funded small business research and development.
Students
Doctoral student Mintesnot Tenkir Teni published the research article "Racial disparity in gestational diabetes mellitus and the association with sleep-disordered breathing and smoking cigarettes: a cross-sectional study" with co-authors and mentors Travis Loux, Ph.D. (Biostatistics) and Anne Sebert Kuhlmann, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Education).